VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contract Job Trends

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 27 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 435 519
Rank change year-on-year -90 +84 +125
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 99 91 60
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.31% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.65% 1.01% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 69 46
10th Percentile £456 £510 £320
25th Percentile £483 £525 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £585 £519
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +12.77% +13.02%
75th Percentile £610 £650 £556
90th Percentile £659 £688 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £585 £525
% change year-on-year -13.33% +11.43% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £86.00 - -
90th Percentile £93.65 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.07 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 15,209 9,010 13,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.48% 30.68% 30.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,131 5,699 8,226
10th Percentile £350 £290 £300
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £709 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £507 £530
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.30% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,098 514 1,074
10th Percentile £16.46 £18.20 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.25 £22.27 £17.88
Median hourly rate £47.50 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +6.25% -25.93%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.25 £80.07 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £45.01 £40.31
% change year-on-year +5.54% +11.65% -19.18%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) job vacancy trend in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 27 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 27 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -124 73 £535 -8.55% 24
UK excluding London -112 58 £507 -13.33% 17
Work from Home -8 43 £581 +3.20% 14
North of England -54 19 £476 -4.78% 3
North West -26 16 £469 +7.25% 3
London -58 15 £606 -6.77% 10
South East -65 14 £610 -2.88% 8
South West -69 10 £553 -3.91% 2
East of England -28 8 £507 -6.11% 1
Midlands -59 4 £488 -30.36% 4
Scotland - 4 £413 -
West Midlands -59 3 £425 -39.29% 3
Yorkshire -65 3 £488 -2.50%
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 1

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.04%) Confluence
1 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.01%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (16.16%) Azure
2 11 (11.11%) AWS
3 5 (5.05%) Nutanix
4 4 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (3.03%) GitHub
5 3 (3.03%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.01%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.01%) Datadog
6 1 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (17.17%) VSAN
2 11 (11.11%) Firewall
3 8 (8.08%) SAN
4 7 (7.07%) DNS
5 6 (6.06%) NAS
5 6 (6.06%) Software-Defined Networking
6 5 (5.05%) DHCP
7 4 (4.04%) Network Security
8 3 (3.03%) TCP/IP
9 2 (2.02%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (2.02%) IPFIX
9 2 (2.02%) iSCSI
9 2 (2.02%) LAN
9 2 (2.02%) VXLAN
9 2 (2.02%) WAN
10 1 (1.01%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (1.01%) DMVPN
10 1 (1.01%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (1.01%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 1 (1.01%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Development Applications
1 4 (4.04%) Bitbucket
1 4 (4.04%) Git
1 4 (4.04%) Jenkins
1 4 (4.04%) JIRA
2 1 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 24 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.10%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.05%) Finance
5 4 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.02%) Banking
6 2 (2.02%) Electronics
6 2 (2.02%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.02%) Marketing
6 2 (2.02%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.01%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.01%) Military
Job Titles
1 26 (26.26%) VMware Engineer
2 23 (23.23%) Consultant
2 23 (23.23%) VMware Consultant
3 14 (14.14%) Wintel Engineer
4 13 (13.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (12.12%) PowerShell Engineer
6 8 (8.08%) Principal Consultant
6 8 (8.08%) Senior
7 7 (7.07%) Python Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Architect
8 6 (6.06%) Azure Consultant
8 6 (6.06%) Hyper-V Consultant
8 6 (6.06%) JavaScript Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) PowerShell Consultant
8 6 (6.06%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) VMware Specialist
9 5 (5.05%) Lead
9 5 (5.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.04%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 3 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.03%) REST
2 2 (2.02%) Flash
3 1 (1.01%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.21%) Replication
2 16 (16.16%) Clustering
3 8 (8.08%) Data Centre
4 6 (6.06%) Private Cloud
5 5 (5.05%) PKI
6 4 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.02%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (2.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (2.02%) NVMe
7 2 (2.02%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.02%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.02%) Taxonomies
7 2 (2.02%) VxBlock/Vblock
8 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.01%) EMC VMAX
8 1 (1.01%) EMC VNX
8 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.01%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 31 (31.31%) Windows
2 24 (24.24%) Windows Server
3 12 (12.12%) Linux
4 4 (4.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.03%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (3.03%) VMS
6 2 (2.02%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.02%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (26.26%) Disaster Recovery
2 25 (25.25%) Network Virtualisation
3 19 (19.19%) Capacity Planning
4 18 (18.18%) High Availability
5 16 (16.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (12.12%) Migration
8 11 (11.11%) Project Delivery
9 10 (10.10%) Agile
10 9 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (7.07%) Change Management
11 7 (7.07%) Containerisation
11 7 (7.07%) ITIL
11 7 (7.07%) Performance Tuning
12 6 (6.06%) Customer Requirements
12 6 (6.06%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (6.06%) System Testing
13 5 (5.05%) Infrastructure Automation
13 5 (5.05%) Roadmaps
13 5 (5.05%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 70 (70.71%) PowerShell
2 58 (58.59%) Python
3 38 (38.38%) JavaScript
4 13 (13.13%) Bash
5 2 (2.02%) Perl
6 1 (1.01%) SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (68.69%) Security Cleared
2 56 (56.57%) SC Cleared
3 31 (31.31%) VCAP
4 22 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (19.19%) MCSE
6 17 (17.17%) MCSA
7 13 (13.13%) DV Cleared
8 10 (10.10%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (7.07%) CCNP
10 5 (5.05%) Degree
10 5 (5.05%) OCA
10 5 (5.05%) Oracle Certification
10 5 (5.05%) RHCA
11 3 (3.03%) AWS Certification
11 3 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (3.03%) CCNA
11 3 (3.03%) NCDA
11 3 (3.03%) RHCE
12 2 (2.02%) Azure Certification
12 2 (2.02%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.02%) SLA
2 1 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 57 (57.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (38.38%) VMware ESXi
3 31 (31.31%) vSphere
4 25 (25.25%) VMware NSX
5 21 (21.21%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (15.15%) Hyper-V
7 8 (8.08%) Active Directory
8 6 (6.06%) Docker
9 2 (2.02%) KVM
9 2 (2.02%) SRDF
10 1 (1.01%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (1.01%) Firmware
10 1 (1.01%) NFS
10 1 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (43.43%) vRealize
2 36 (36.36%) Ansible
3 35 (35.35%) vCenter Server
4 10 (10.10%) Terraform
5 9 (9.09%) PowerCLI
6 7 (7.07%) Kubernetes
7 6 (6.06%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (4.04%) vMotion
9 3 (3.03%) Grafana
9 3 (3.03%) Progress Chef
9 3 (3.03%) Puppet
10 2 (2.02%) Podman
11 1 (1.01%) Argo
11 1 (1.01%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (1.01%) EMC VPLEX
11 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (1.01%) NetBackup
11 1 (1.01%) Prometheus
11 1 (1.01%) SCOM
11 1 (1.01%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 99 (100.00%) VMware
2 26 (26.26%) Microsoft
3 20 (20.20%) Cisco
4 5 (5.05%) Broadcom
4 5 (5.05%) NetApp
5 4 (4.04%) Atlassian
5 4 (4.04%) Dell
5 4 (4.04%) Veeam
6 3 (3.03%) Brocade
6 3 (3.03%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.02%) Commvault
7 2 (2.02%) EMC
7 2 (2.02%) Oracle
7 2 (2.02%) SAP
8 1 (1.01%) 3PAR
8 1 (1.01%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.01%) F5
8 1 (1.01%) Juniper
8 1 (1.01%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.01%) Remedy